HOHENWERFEN FORTRESS & WERFEN VILLAGE SALZBURGERLAND GALLERIES 2007
The fortress featured as the 'Schloss Adler' in the 1968 film 'Where Eagles Dare'.....although the cablecar scenes were filmed elsewhere in Austria, at Ebensee.
It was originally built in the 11th century and has been extended and renovated over the centuries when the seat of the Prince Archbishops of Salzburg and was also a court & prison.
It stands on a high rocky outcrop immediately above the River Salzach and the village of Werfen